The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Twenty-nine prisoners remain at the US detention facility in Cuba after the transfer of Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu.

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers have issued a new subpoena that would require the state’s prison system to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify in person on Friday about the state’s junk science law

The U.S. government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused or mistreated at a now-shuttered federal prison in California that was known as the “rape club” because of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct

Payout settles claims of abuse and retaliation at women’s prison in Dublin, California, now permanently closed

Ex-Gulf Cartel chief Osiel Cardenas has been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges

Letter: Prof Rod Morgan says the last thing we should be doing is expanding the prison system as the government intends to do

The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon $1.2 billion from the state-owned oil company, some of which allegedly landed into accounts controlled by President Nicolás Maduro’s stepsons

Angela Singer writes: John viewed those who caused the prison riot as people in difficult circumstances

Filipina woman Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso narrowly escapes execution in Indonesia, returns to the Philippines after 15 years in prison for drug trafficking. I...